The 1970s are a strange time to be concerned with hundred-year-old family curses - especially when they were the work of a man like Morton Varnay whose obsession with devil worship and hatred of his sister, Elizabeth Gilderoy, led him to damn her and all her descendants.
The first wave of fears was a reaction to the ominous events that began to plague the Varnay estate. And then Harriet Finch, tenant of River Cottage on the estate grounds, finds a corpse in the old family chapel.
Chief Inspector Septimus Finch is not about to leave his favorite niece alone to cope with old skeletons, family feuds, and witches' covens - but even he is shocked at the grisly truth behind the Varnay family walls.
The 1970s are a strange time to be concerned with hundred-year-old family curses - especially when they were the work of a man like Morton Varnay whose obsession with devil worship and hatred of his sister, Elizabeth Gilderoy, led him to damn her and all her descendants.
The first wave of fears was a reaction to the ominous events that began to plague the Varnay estate. And then Harriet Finch, tenant of River Cottage on the estate grounds, finds a corpse in the old family chapel.
Chief Inspector Septimus Finch is not about to leave his favorite niece alone to cope with old skeletons, family feuds, and witches' covens - but even he is shocked at the grisly truth behind the Varnay family walls.